Suffolk Superior Court

Judge Anthony Campo sentenced Peña to 8 to 12 years on the kidnapping charge and the first three rape charges, 10 to 13 years on three other rape charges and 11 to 14 years on the final four rape charges.

Victor Peña, the man found guilty last week of kidnapping and raping a woman he held captive in his Boston apartment over three days in January of 2019, was sentenced Monday to 29 to 39 years in prison. A jury in Suffolk Superior Court returned the verdict last Tuesday, convicting him on all 10 charges of aggravated rape and one…

Victor Peña has been found guilty of kidnapping and raping a woman he held captive in his Boston apartment over three days in January 2019.

Victor Peña has been found guilty of kidnapping and raping a woman he held captive in his Boston apartment over three days in January 2019. A jury in Suffolk Superior Court returned the verdict Tuesday, convicting him on all 10 charges of aggravated rape and one of kidnapping after deliberating for about two hours. Peña is slated to be sentenced…

Peña appeared in the courtroom carrying a book and wearing rosary beads around his neck. His accuser had testified that the man would make her read the Bible in Spanish while he held her her captive at his apartment in Charlestown and sexually assaulted her.

Pena, a 42-year-old from Charlestown, faces 10 charges of aggravated rape and one of kidnapping. The trial opened in Suffolk Superior Court last Monday.

The man accused of kidnapping and raping in a three-day ordeal in Boston in 2019 testified Monday, a new twist in the trial — lawyers for the prosecution and defense had been scheduled to make their closing arguments. Victor Peña, 42, hadn’t testified earlier in the trial in Suffolk Superior Court. He’s facing 10 charges of aggravated rape and one…

A Massachusetts couple whose prematurely-born baby girl died less than two weeks after she was delivered has sued one of Boston’s most prestigious hospitals for losing the infant’s body, denying the parents the opportunity to hold a proper funeral and burial. The lawsuit filed Thursday says that baby Everleigh’s body was inadvertently thrown away by a Brigham and Women’s...

The Massachusetts man accused of brutally murdering two doctors in 2017 was lurking in front of the South Boston condominium complex where the couple lived before the killings, prosecutors said Thursday. In their opening statement, prosecutors said video evidence will show that Bampumim Teixeira, 33, of Chelsea, was “looking, waiting, lurking out front” of the building on the day 49-year-old...

A security guard who was working at a Boston store has been indicted on charges that he choked and punched an 11-year-old shoplifter last summer. Mohammad Khan, 36, of Cambridge, is charged with assault and battery on a child under 14 and a civil rights violation. His employer, Securitas Security Services USA Inc. of New Jersey, was also indicted on...

Jury selection for the trial of a man accused of murdering two doctors in their South Boston luxury condo began Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court. Bampumim Teixeira, 33, of Chelsea, pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and other charges in connection to the May 5, 2017, homicides of 49-year-old Richard Field and 38-year-old Lina Bolanos.

The vaping industry has dropped its federal lawsuit challenging Massachusetts’ temporary ban on the sale of vaping products while a separate suit advances in state court. The Vapor Technology Association filed notice late Wednesday dismissing its lawsuit in Boston federal court. The D.C.-based group is still challenging Massachusetts’ ban in state court.

A Massachusetts judge says the state’s ban on the sale of vaping products can’t be enforced on medical marijuana products. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Douglas Wilkins ruled Tuesday that marijuana card holders seeking to purchase marijuana vaping products should be exempt from the four-month ban.

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A former Boston youth baseball couch who was accused of raping a child but deported in 2014 has been brought back to Massachusetts to stand trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. Jose Ortega, 48, is charged with rape of a child under 16 and battery of a child under 14. He was originally indicted in 2014 and released on bail.

They came bearing oversized images of the sons and daughters they lost to drug overdoses and signs demanding justice from the pharmaceutical company they hold most responsible. The parents and their supporters rallied outside a Boston courthouse Friday as a judge heard arguments in Massachusetts’ lawsuit against Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, over its role in the national opioid...

A former MBTA police officer who allegedly beat a homeless man and two sergeants accused of helping him cover it up faced a judge in Boston Tuesday.

A former MBTA transit police officer accused of beating a homeless man and two supervisors accused of helping him cover up the incident were arraigned Tuesday in Boston’s Suffolk Superior Court. Dorston Bartlett, 65, of Lynn, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violating a person’s civil rights for allegedly hitting a 32-year-old homeless man with...

A Massachusetts man has been indicted for the alleged sexual assault of a child, enticing another to create child pornography for him, and sharing graphic images of minors through a smartphone app, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. A Suffolk County grand jury returned indictments Tuesday charging Domenic D’Amore, 29, of East Boston, with three counts of indecent...

The family of a woman who was struck and killed by a dislodged, 200-pound manhole cover while driving on Interstate 93 in 2016 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts. The Boston Globe reports that the family of Caitlin Clavette filed the lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court earlier this week. The suit names the Massachusetts Department...